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Yeah. Twice.

Once was digitally and just like "I caught you lying to me because 'competent person B' didn't know about the problems I have with 'incompetent person A' and accidentally let it slip that you're not getting rid of them like you said so I'd stay." The guy waffled a bunch and I know he was between a rock and a hard place with it, but I'd basically been begrudgingly working with someone who in terms of intelligence level, maturity, and competency was Donald Trump. He made more work than he completed. A lot more. And he had just enough initiative to "make work" and fuck things up at breakneck speeds. I felt bad leaving the dude, but I was losing my mind and just worn down to nothing after two years of it. I knew my leaving was probably gonna be like pulling the pin on a grenade for everyone, but I felt like I'd given enough of my soul by then to bounce with a clear conscience.

The other instance was when I was in college, and I didn't storm out but it was an abrupt screw job in its own way. I had a retail job for fun money and a couple people had given exceptionally long resignation notices to the manager. Rather than hire people with all that time, do nothing was chosen as the resolution. I was going to be heading into finals for the semester and was not gonna pick up any extra shifts. 1-2 per week was gonna be my max. I knew my manager could be sorta stick-up-the-ass about certain things (but was okay in general, to be fair), so about two weeks before the last quitter was due to leave I went to talk to said manager with a resignation letter in my back pocket, just in case. I said "okay, this place isn't my career. I have finals, and you haven't hired anyone else the past month or two. I will stay and work my usual amount of hours but because of school I can't be working 40+ hours or whatever because we're short-staffed soon." The manager says "well, I can't make any promises." I say "I need you to do that for me, and I will stick around, but I'm probably not gonna be here a whole lot longer anyways." I get the same "I can't make any promises." I just say "okay, then here's two weeks notice. I quit." My old boss's face was priceless, because now they were gonna have two employees total once I was gone.